week one: trial

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WEEK ONE: TRIAL

Morning dawns bright and early the day after the announcement of the dead, and as the sun tracks its way across the sky, the voice's message is likely not far from anyone's mind. The fire in the ruins still burns, though as the minutes tick by into hours, the flames slowly begin to subside.

Finally, the sun reaches its highest point just as the flames in the ruins sputter out. A low, deep thrumming sound echoes throughout the entire island, which turns into ringing, a drawn-out signal that grows louder and louder until it seems as though all other sounds on the island fall to a hush.

It is then that the lighthouse beacon becomes illuminated, drawing them all to the southern beach. That same voice as before rings, audible throughout the entire island.

"There are those of you who hope to escape from this with clean hands... well, I suggest you discard those hopes. You are all participants in this game, and you will all be complicit in the sacrifices that take place here, or else you will not have earned your passage home.

You have until the sun vanishes beneath the horizon. Choose your next sacrifice, and choose who will dispatch them. Speak the names of your choices into the conch. Failure to cooperate will result in a fate worse than death.

...perhaps you should investigate the deaths. Would it ease your conscience to condemn someone to death whose hands are already stained with the blood of a sacrifice? The bodies are out there, and the evidence as well... but you will have to find it yourselves.

Tick-tock, tick-tock! Your time starts... now."

Once the entire group has gathered, the lighthouse's beacon flickers out.

It is time to choose the next sacrifice... and hopefully, to catch a killer.

Good luck.

OOC NOTES

Welcome to your first trial, everyone! This trial will take place from 9am PST/12pm EST/4am NZST, and will last until 6pm PST/9pm EST/1pm NZST.

There will be a one-hour trial break from 1pm PST/4pm EST/8am NZST to 2pm PST/5pm EST/9am NZST. We recommend that you use this time to get something to eat if you haven't yet already, play some Animal Crossing, or even just take a quick nap. During this time, no mod tags will go out; we also ask that players refrain from starting any intensive threads such as interrogations, strip searches, hair or injury comparisons, etc. While we're not going to say you're not allowed to tag during this time, we also don't want anyone to miss out on anything important during an official break.

Please remember to have your character cast a vote on the voting page! Voting is mandatory, as it functions as the activity check for the game. If you do not cast a vote by the time trial is over, your character will be killed off. Please contact the mods prior to the end of the trial if something comes up and you are prevented from voting (i.e. 504 errors, etc).

If you have any questions, please go ahead and ask! Your mods and fellow players are always here to help. And most of all... have fun!

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Comments

[baori]

Attacked at the camp and then taken elsewhere?

[ because he didn't see anything at jungle camp... ]

[fabrefactions]

[ that's ONE CAMP giyuu you bad dad ]

I can't speak for cavern camp, as I didn't rest there, so... unless someone else can, there could be something there?

[baori]

[ he has done nothing wrong!!! he looks after his camp.... except with what happened to isabelle. ]

Zoe was the only one at the jungle camp, so she would be the one to know if anything happened there.

[ but also gestures at all of zoe. ]

The following day didn't prove to have any signs of anything wrong.

[ not like would excuse anything. ]

[fabrefactions]

So that is one camp potentially accounted for. [ Hm. ] What about the other two?

[baori]

There was another map that was being noted, wasn't there?

[ will he use ogata's name? no. did he even bother to learn ogata's name? also no. ]

Perhaps we could use it to plan our trips.

[fabrefactions]

The... man who is at the lighthouse now was the one coordinating where we all "passed out" yesterday. He cannot complain if we [ redraw the whole map to be more spacially accurate and detailed and easier to read from ] examine it and make use of what was documented.

[baori]

[ flex those artist muscles, yusuke. ]

If he does then it would make him suspicious. We are trying to find out who murdered these people, after all.

[fabrefactions]

Alternatively we could just pick a direction and send people in it. But for now this could possibly save some time.

[baori]

And if we pick a location where nothing can be found?

[fabrefactions]

That could happen either way.

[baori]

We could at least pick a location with higher likelihood of finding some answers.

[lacking]

Do we have any idea of what those locations are? It feels like we're taking a risk, no matter where we go next.

[fabrefactions]

I would perhaps suggest picking one and trying it might be preferable to arguing in circles.

[lacking]

I agree. We already have some ideas, right? Let's just go before we run out of time.

[fabrefactions]

[ thank god some people are being proactive and picking the jungle. ]

[lacking]

[bless them.]

[baori]

It seems like the cavern is a point of interest due to Wen Ning and then the beach for Marie.

[ and now we're going to the jungle??? look, giyuu has limits. ]

[lacking]

Which side of the beach? Minako-san and the others are already checking out the lighthouse, so I think checking the other side of the island's a good idea.

[baori]

The south beach. Marie spent time with the crabs, didn't she?

[lacking]

Right... But I wonder if there's anything on the north side too. Maybe something related to what happened in the ruins.

[baori]

[ hmm. ]

Most of the people who died were from the cavern camp, weren't they? It doesn't seem like a bad place to check next.

[lacking]

[She nods.]

I'm worried we'll overlook something by thinking too narrowly, so...

[baori]

Thinking too narrowly?

[ conjecture? giyuu? non. ]

[lacking]

I guess, what I mean is... Limiting ourselves to places that seem the most obvious feels dangerous.

[baori]

So, you're in favor of blindly picking a place or somewhere unexpected just because it would be the least likely to be a place to look?